FELANI

JANUARY 7, 2011 · BARBED WIRE

"She was fifteen. She was climbing a fence. Her body hung there for five hours"

This happened once, on camera

It has happened 1,927 more times since 2009

The world stopped watching. The killing did not stop..

1,928
DOCUMENTED CASES · 2009–2024
690
KILLED
619
INJURED
477
ABDUCTED
31
MISSING
45
PUSH-IN

2 cases involved rape.

Every case is sorted into one of five categories — killed, injured, abducted, missing or push-in. Totals count people: where a description reports a group ("41 pushed in"), the stated number is used. Categories are recorded in the incident files for 1,131 cases and inferred from the description for a further 650; 147 cases have no determinable category.

By the numbers

Yearly count, 2009–2024

From 251 cases in 2013 down to 31 in 2021 — but never zero.

How they were killed

Of the cases with a recorded method.

Who killed them

97% by India's BSF. The other 3% does not exonerate it.

Deadliest border districts

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Age of victims

Median in the early twenties. Felani was on the young side, not an outlier.

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